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Talking of name changes

Shag
Shag Posts: 4,555
edited May 2008 in Not Sports Related
How about this one ?

Where are we again ?

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  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,846
    it's not April the 1st is it ?
  • SE10Addick
    SE10Addick Posts: 2,967
    unfortunatly its real! they want to make it the Bangladeshi answer to Chinatown.

    imagine telling people you work in Banglatown rather than Shoreditch!
  • Ledge
    Ledge Posts: 7,179
    surprised george galloway hasn't jumped on the bandwagon.

    You just know it will happen.
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    Woolwich will become Somilia

    There would no orignal names left if they all jumped on the bandwagon
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    The gent is right. It could reflect the fact that the area has been a place imigrants have settled in over many many years. Therefore it should be called (after a minority in the area) ANGLO SAXON LAND.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,184
    You actually have a point there GH. Not often I agree with you on political matters, but the area has always been a starting point for immigrants, who then go on to bigger and better things. In 50 years the Bangladeshis will have moved on and another immigrant group will be incurring the wrath of little Englanders, and the name Banglatown will seem ridiculous.

    In fact the same councillor who is wasting his time with this, will probably be campaigning to change it again, as he will be embarassed to be associated with a run down area full of them bloody martians...
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    PROUD to be a "little Englander" mate.

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